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Biology is a Burrito Making the Modern Laboratory Issue 02: Technology Issue 01: Origins

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A Recipe for Cells

By breaking E. coli apart, all the way down to molecules, researchers hope to recreate the recipe from which it is built. Their efforts may prove futile.

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Species Have Blurry Boundaries

By Kevin Blake

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Great Leaps in Biological Theory

By Ulkar Aghayeva

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Pre-Order Making the Modern Laboratory

Explore the tools and techniques that made modern biology possible.

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Antibiotics Are an Economic Failure

Social practice and market shortcomings are the bottleneck for solving antibiotic resistance; not molecular discovery.

Words by Matt Burnett

How to Build a Strep A Vaccine

After decades of scientific and regulatory delays, several Strep A vaccine candidates are entering clinical trials. Without further funding for phase 3 studies, however, many will be hamstrung.

Words by Eva Amsen

Metaphors for Biology: Evolution

A series of quantitative metaphors on the speeds of representative events in evolutionary biology. The end of our three-part series.

Words by Sam Clamons

A Brief History of Lab Notebooks

How experimental recordings have changed, from the Renaissance through today.

Words by Ulkar Aghayeva

That's All, for Now

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Words by Niko McCarty

Designing AI for Disruptive Science

Why scaling AI won’t automatically lead to paradigm shifts.

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How to Engineer Flowers

With Nick Desnoyer

A plant biologist in England is using genetic engineering, breeding, and pathogens to design and create flowers that exist nowhere else on Earth.

How to Terraform Mars

With Erika DeBenedictis

Pioneer Labs has made its first microbe capable of growing in simulated Martian soil and making building materials.

"SpudCell will replicate continuously by 2030"

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Kate Adamala joins The New Biology to discuss SpudCell and the prospect of continuous replication by 2030.